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  • Henry Ford

    EDITORIAL: They built this

    The History Channel recently concluded "The Men Who Built America," a mini-series about the former titans of industry -- Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Morgan and Ford. These men built America from the ground up in the 50 years following the Civil War.


  • Illustration Obama the Intimidator by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    MCCLANAHAN: Obama's re-election reveals ignorance of our past

    According to exit polling data, Mitt Romney lost the presidential election in part because people did not believe he "felt their pain." The Obama team effectively portrayed him as a cold, heartless, multimillionaire monster to the American people, a man willing to slash jobs, throw grandma off the cliff and let people starve in the streets while he and his wife sip champagne, eat caviar and, in the mind of one liberal journalist, celebrate while black people drown.


  • Lawmakers: Fake pharmacies price gouging on drugs

    Members of Congress investigating shortages of crucial drugs are targeting nearly two dozen fake pharmacies allegedly set up solely to buy and resell the drugs at huge markups.


  • Antique cars rolling into new Tacoma museum

    Sunny and - more importantly - dry: A good day for moving 40 antique cars.


  • SANDERS: War on energy at home creates disasters abroad

    President Obama's war on fossil fuels is adding to instability in a world already racked by international debt, demographic pressures and unpredictable, galloping technological advances.


  • Internet privacy controls challenge tech industry

    The federal government has put Google, Microsoft, Apple and other technology companies on notice: Give consumers a way prevent advertisers from tracking their movements across the Web _ or face regulation.


  • Jennifer Egan wins fiction Pulitzer Prize

    Jennifer Egan's inventive novel about the passage of time, "A Visit from the Goon Squad," won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday, honored for its "big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed."


  • Jennifer Egan wins fiction Pulitzer

    Jennifer Egan's novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday, honored for its "big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed."


  • White House seeks spectrum for public safety

    The Obama administration is throwing its support behind a proposal to give a valuable chunk of radio waves to police officers, firefighters and emergency medical workers to build a nationwide wireless broadband network for public safety.


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